Bragiel is a managing partner and co-founder of i/o ventures, an early stage startup accelerator based in San Francisco, which focuses heavily on a...
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Bragiel is a managing partner and co-founder of i/o ventures, an early stage startup accelerator based in San Francisco, which focuses heavily on a mentorship driven model.
Previously he founded and served as the CEO of 3 companies including:
-Lefora, a product bringing forums into the 21st century, proudly hosting over 100,000+ unique communities.
-Meetro, the first location based social network.
-Paragon Five, a game development studio specializing in console and mobile content with offices in Chicago and Krakow, Poland.
Bragiel gets really excited about projects that involve travel, entertainment, and technologies that encourage communication and networking.
He speaks regularly around the world about entrepreneurship, tech policy, early stage funding & incubators. He's also been know to serve as a liaison for foreign companies looking to establish operations in Silicon Valley.
He can also proudly say that he's one of the authors of Game Programming Gems 4.
Outside of work, he has toured Russia by train (starting in Siberia), bicycled across the United States (riding over 5,000 km), canoed the entire Mississippi River (paddling over 2,300 miles) and visited 75+ countries including the birth of a nation.
He likes to surround himself with people from various backgrounds especially those with a "jack of all trades" streak in them. Besides that, he aspires to drive a taxi and work at a hot dog stand in New York when he retires.
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